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["Bob Lounsbury" <address@hidden>]

On 9/11/06, Alexander Hansen <address@hidden> wrote:

On 9/11/06, Bob Lounsbury <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Monday, September 11, 2006, at 01:13 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote:
>
> > On 9/11/06, Bob Lounsbury < address@hidden> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Monday, September 11, 2006, at 12:56 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote:
> >>
> >> > On 9/11/06, Bob Lounsbury < address@hidden> wrote:
> >> >> Hello,
> >> >>
> >> >> I just installed Fink and used Fink commander to install texmacs
> >> and
> >> >> everything worked perfectly.
> >> >>
> >> >> However, in the instructions on the texmacs website it says to
> >> open a
> >> >> terminal window and type "open-x11 texmacs &". When I do this I
> >> get a
> >> >> response of "open-x11: Command not found.".
> >> >>
> >> >> Any ideas?
> >> >>
> >> >> Thanks,
> >> >> Bob Lounsbury
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> > You're presumably not using Apple's X11 (since the 10.2.x beta has
> >> > long since been pulled).  There's no open-x11 in XFree86.
> >> >
> >> > You'll have to start XFree86 and do it the old-fashioned way:
> >> >
> >> > (e.g. from a Terminal.app window)
> >> > env DISPLAY=:0 texmacs &
> >> >
> >> > or just run
> >> >
> >> > texmacs &
> >> >
> >> > from an X terminal (the '&' is optional)
> >> > --
> >> > Alexander K. Hansen
> >> > Fink Documenter (still)
> >> >
> >>
> >>  From the terminal window after typing "env DISPLAY=:0 texmacs &" I
> >> get,
> >>
> >>   "Fatal error: I failed to connect to Xserver in
> >> 'x_display_rep::x_display_rep'
> >
> > Did you start XFree86 before running that?
>
> I am still very new to all of this. How to you start XFree86?
>
>

There should be an XDarwin icon in Applications.  Or you can use
"startx" from the OS X terminal--either way.

> >
> >>  From the X terminal it works, but man that is not as nice as in
> >> windoze
> >> or linux.
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >>
> >>
> >
> > There are some indeed nicer options for later OS X versions (e.g.
> > open-x11 and scripting tools that let you run the application from an
> > icon)
> >



--
Alexander K. Hansen
Fink Documenter (still)

Thanks for all the help.

I think I will upgrade my laptop to OS X Tiger to take advantage of all the latest software.